Replying to a message of Bob Klahn to Bob Ackley:

 BK>>>  Do you have any idea how much of a disaster that would be
 BK>>> for  the state? The loss of a major transportation artery
 BK>>> would be  really really bad.

 BA>> Only for the truck stops, and there aren't all that many of
 BA>> those. Omaha, Lincoln, York, Grand Island and North Platte.
 BA>>  Most westbound truckers hit the truck stops in Council
 BA>>  Bluffs rather than Omaha, fuel is noticeably cheaper in
 BA>>  Iowa (gasoline at the convenience store in Malvern, IA, is
 BA>>  about 10 cents/gallon cheaper than gasoline at Offutt
 BA>>  AFB's *on-base* station).

 BA>> There *are* other roads for those needing them.

 BK>  If they were good enough that would be one thing. If not...

They are useable.  Probably not for long-distance truckers (because they
can't maintain the speed they want/need to), but for most other purposes
they're fine.  I've driven part of US30 and most of Nebraska state highway
2 (which runs from the Wyoming border west of Alliance in northwest
Nebraska to Nebraska City on the Missouri River 50 or so miles north of the
Kansas border).

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